Melt-generation processes associated with the Tristan mantle plume: Constraints on the origin of EM-1

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 237, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 744-767

  Gibson, Sally A ^a   Thompson, R N ^b   Day, J A ^a   Humphris, S E ^c   Dickin, A P ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

EM 1; Mantle plumes; Metasomatised lithosphere; Ocean island basalts; Tristan

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; SEDIMENTS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

MANTLE PLUMES; METASOMATISED LITHOSPHERE; OCEAN-ISLAND BASALTS;

BASALT;

MANTLE PLUME; OCEAN ISLAND BASALT;

EID: 20844458106     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.06.015     Document Type: Article

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